For example, “Girl, I was drunk boots!” means that the individual was highly intoxicated. Here goes:īoots: A Black gay slang term typically used at the end of a sentence to add emphasis to the intensity of the subject of the sentence itself. 'So as not to have the heterosexual men and women that read this book be COMPLETELY lost in the sea of slang terminology used particularly by the Black gay male inmates, I have added a glossary to help guide you to interpret each term in the context of the interviews provided.

Monday, Octo'When The Lights Go Out: Glossary of Terms' The following definitions and examples of the drag meaning/s of 'boots' that I found through searching the Internet are presented in no order of preference. WARNING: Although the excerpts including in this post are profanity free and include no sexually explicit content, profanity and sexually explicit content may be included in some of the articles and blog posts whose links are given below. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.

The content of this post is provided for historical, etymological, and cultural purposes. Those posts can be assessed by clicking on the African American Vernacular English tag given below. This post is also related to an ongoing pancocojams series of posts on African American Vernacular English. Posts in that series can be assessed by clicking the 'Gay culture' tag and the 'drag culture' tag given below. This post is part of an ongoing pancocojams series that showcases the creativity of Gay cultures, including drag culture. Two excerpts from those discussions are included in that Addendum.Īdded May 16, 2015- Drag definitions and examples of 'toot'and 'boot' and 'top toot'.

Addendum #2 of this post includes links to two online discussions about whether the use of drag terms by people outside of those communities is appropriate. Addendum #1 of this post includes my comments about those definitions and what I believe is the similar way that the slang word 'boom' is used in some sentences. This post provides drag slang definitions of the word 'boots'.

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